11:15 p.m. EDT update: The Brewers said after the game that Segura tested negative for a concussion or a fracture. He did need stitches and is expected to miss at least a couple of days, but it’s not believed to be a DL situation.

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Jean Segura had to be helped into the Brewers’ clubhouse with a trainer during Friday’s game against the Cubs. He was holding the back of his head and appeared to be in pain. Per Cubs broadcaster Len Kasper on Twitter, Segura was accidentally hit in the face with a bat by teammate Ryan Braun. While on the top step of the dugout, Braun was apparently using the bat to stretch and didn’t see Segura approach from behind.

Segura was taken out of the game and replaced at shortstop by Jeff Bianchi.

The severity of the injury is not yet known, but when details surface, we’ll update you here.

Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel retweeted this Vine that shows Segura getting struck by the bat:

Braun issued a statement noting the video is “fatally flawed”, and that “I promise you on anything that’s ever meant anything to me in my life – the morals, the values, the virtues by which I’ve lived in my 28 years on this planet – I did not do this”

Priceless. Though he didn’t issue a statement. He called a press conference, made love to the camera with his eyes, and then when on to explain to the world eloquently how this was not his fault and that when all the facts are made known he will be vindicated. In fact, he went on, it was technically Segura’s fault for having stood so close to him (and his aura of earnestness/sincerity) without first clearing it with team officials.

Boy, I sure hope Braun’s delicate psyche is not too bruised after this unfortunate event. Baseball needs him and I just don’t know what we’d do without him. We love you Ryan. You just go right on being who you are and we’ll continue to run around cleaning up your messes and making excuses for you inimitable sense of entitlement, OK?

In an MLB.com article by Joe DiGiovanni, published on 26 April, Braun is quoted saying:

“You never want to see something like that, you know? It breaks your heart a little bit, and obviously it’s never something that’s done intentionally. I do my warmups every game. I’m surprised stuff like that doesn’t happen more often. Guys are stretching and there’s limited space. I’m always in the same spot and always doing the same thing. The inning was about to start. Typically he’s in the on-deck circle.

No apology. An excuse, but no apology. No indication that Braun feels responsible, and therefore filled with a sense of regret. No promise to be more careful in the future.

Just a terrible accident. Segura clearly must’ve thought that Braun saw him; he may have called something out, but Braun didn’t hear or see him. That’s Braun’s way of stretching and he does it before every game, albeit usually not on the top step of the dugout. This is a horrid thing to have happen and I hope Segura will be OK. (Segura’s lucky in one sense; getting hit that hard by a bat near the eye could’ve done much greater damage.)

Bastardo and Galvis would have been better bets for your taunt – Byrd was not a Phillie at the time of his discretions.

People forgive cheaters , and nearly all would have forgiven Braun. People aren’t too crazy about cheaters who insist they are victims, let alone claiming victimhood in such grandiose terms. Braun put himself in the unique spot he is in – I will say the same thing if Ryan Howard (or Utley, or Rollins) ends up in that boat

Braun’s “unique situation” was that he was forced to defend himself before his “confidential” arbitration since his case was leaked to the media, and then he had an actionable defense given that the sample collector didn’t follow protocol.

That’s the “unique situation” that Braun was in that Byrd and Ruiz and Bastardo and Galvis were not in. Saying that those guys wouldn’t lie their way out of the situation if they could is ridiculous – they’d cheat, but not lie to clear their name? Give me a break lol.

As if that in any way excuses cheating, then telling 5 different versions of events, then throwing a dude under the bus (including reaching out to other MLB players and claiming your investigators had proof he was an anti-semite) lol.

They didn’t have the option – their sample collector didn’t screw up the protocol. You really think they wouldn’t have dodged the suspension if they could? They were already cheaters, you think lying is a bridge too far? Lol.

According to a source close to Ryan Braun wants to make it clear that HE did not hit Segura and it was infact the bat. Braun will attempt to sue the bat and remove it from it current position for tarnishing his reputation.